Note Definition
- to exchange views; confer
- to say, write, or do what is specially apt or pleasing
- to write down notes, as during a lecture or interview, for later reference
Other Word Forms of Note
Noun
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Note
- compare notes
- strike the right note
- take notes
Origin of Note
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From Middle English note, noote (“use, usefulness, profit"), from Old English notu (“use, enjoyment, advantage, profit, utility"), from Proto-Germanic *nutō (“enjoyment, utilisation"), from Proto-Indo-European *newd- (“to acquire, make use of"). Cognate with West Frisian not (“yield, produce, crop"), Dutch genot (“enjoyment, pleasure"), Dutch nut (“usefulness, utility, behoof"), German Nutzen (“benefit, usefulness, utility"), Icelandic not (“use", noun). Related also to Old English notian (“to enjoy, make use of, employ"), Old English nÄ“otan (“to use, enjoy"), Old High German niozan (“to use, enjoy"), Modern German benutzen (“to use"). Related to nait.
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From Middle English noten, notien, from Old English notian (“to make use of, use, employ, enjoy"), from Proto-Germanic *nutōnÄ… (“to make use of"), from Proto-Indo-European *neud- (“to acquire, make use of").
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From Middle English note, from Old English not, nōt (“note, mark, sign") and Old French note (“letter, note"), both from Latin nota (“mark, sign, remark, note").
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Middle English from Old French from Latin nota annotation gnō- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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Middle English from Old French from Latin nota annotation gnō- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Inflected and variant forms.
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Old English
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